“I have to say that I felt George’s group of six films had more innovative visual imagination, and this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before, and it took a few baby steps forward with new characters.” - James Cameron about Episode VII.

I am possibly the only person on planet that loves 1997 version of Jabba more then bluray version. I am aware that it lacks details, and has a more crude shape, but to me it lightning and its shape felt more realistic, blu ray version seams more cartoony. I have to defend myself by saying I am artist, aka not visually illiterate: http://i.imgur.com/KFCkWxq.jpg and 3d artist http://i.imgur.com/RDIfXcw.jpg

I am possibly the only person on planet that loves 1997 version of Jabba more then bluray version. I am aware that it lacks details, and has a more crude shape, but to me it lightning and its shape felt more realistic, blu ray version seams more cartoony. I have to defend myself by saying I am artist, aka not visually illiterate: http://i.imgur.com/KFCkWxq.jpg and 3d artist http://i.imgur.com/vorw9DN.jpg

I can see why, but despite the shitty lighting, the model and lip-sync are superior. It’s the same model used in TPM, and it looks way better there.

I am possibly the only person on planet that loves 1997 version of Jabba more then bluray version. I am aware that it lacks details, and has a more crude shape, but to me it lightning and its shape felt more realistic, blu ray version seams more cartoony. I have to defend myself by saying I am artist, aka not visually illiterate: http://i.imgur.com/KFCkWxq.jpg and 3d artist http://i.imgur.com/vorw9DN.jpg

Well… I was there, but the more I look at it the worse the 97 version looks. It has better colors, better alignment to the scene, but it is an inferior CG model. The replacement is closer to the original puppet… except in color. My ultimate solution is to rotoscope Jabba and color correct him separately.

Actually the colors of the 1997 CGI Jabba are spot-on accurate but the damn thing still looks like crap and it’s extremely hard for me to believe that he’d be mobile. The scene never worked at all and with the Greedo scene that precedes it the Jabba in the hangar scene just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.

Also, it feels it shouldn’t even be there. I was really glad that Lucas or someone cut that out in 1977.

I think the editors cut it out. They completely recut the film to fix the horrible pacing problems. It seems like I heard that Greedo’s subtitles were used to change his dialogue after the seen was shot so they could put some information from the Jabba scene there.

I think Lucas was going to just have Jabba be a man (not that he might not have planned on making him an alien before it proved to difficult) but that the editors got rid of the scene because it was pointless and slowed the movie down.